>A member of the Berkeley team is obsessed
with >Upton Sinclair. I was thus surprised when, at
>ACF West coast regionals last year, someone beat
>him to "Babbitt". However, it turned out that >the
word the other person had heard as "Zenith" >was
Zeno, and the answer, of course, was >Tecumseh. (Our
guy got it.)
It should be noted that
Sinclair Lewis' novel "Dodsworth" also begins in Zenith
(though most of the novel's action takes place in
Europe).
I'm curious; how does "Zeno" lead to
"Tecumseh"?
nathan freeburg